The Green School, located along the Ayung River not far from Ubud, is a private school for children from pre-kindergarten to high school.The curriculum, school site and infrastructure have a strong emphasis on sustainability. The school has been designed using renewable resources such as bamboo, mud and local grass. Several buildings are amazing examples of large scale bamboo architecture and is worth visiting for that reason alone. Even some of the furniture is made from bamboo.
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| our guide (a former student) showing us around |
Learning takes place in the natural environment - some buildings have no walls and coexist among the trees and productive gardens, with some trees becoming incorporated in the buildings themselves.
The curriculum focuses on educating for sustainabilty and has a strong focus on the environment and community, encouraging the children to be creative and share what they learn through entreprenurial joint projects with local businesses.
The school is expensive, costing up to around USD11k for later years. The school says there is a scholarship program for local students.
Permaculture in action can be seen throughout the school in the productive gardens, the aquaponic system, compost station, water filtration system, biofuel generation station and composting toilets.
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| Food for the students is grown on-site |
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| Aquaponics greenhouse |
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| Fish tanks in the greenhouse floor |
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| Compost station |
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| Water filtration system |
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| Used cooking oil is collected and turned into fuel |
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| Recycling centre |
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| Composting toilets |
As it was school holidays when we visited, there were no students on site so we had a really good look around. I think I'll let our photos tell the rest of the story....
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| classroom |
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| close up view of roof construction |
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| beautiful yoga studio |
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| another classroom |
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| amazing covered bridge over the river |
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